Huh ! You’re right. It seems to be startpage who do that. Good thing I never used that functionality I guess. The only thing I bang is wikipedia. Umm wait, that’s not what I meant. Lol

Lol. Putin has shown repeatedly how much he respects treaties and laws.

Because ddg proxies your request, so they don’t fingerprint your browser & IP and tag the search to you

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After ramping up production, McDonough said Rivian is excited to expand the Rivian brand internationally, with plans to launch R2 in Europe and other global markets.

Umm, yeah, maybe not a great time for a US company to try and break into Europe.

I actually quite like Rivian, and in different times I’d probably be a potential customer, but not now. American products are now on the “avoid if possible” list.

I won’t be able to totally rid my life of them of course. That will take a long time, but I certainly won’t be adding any.

I trust France a damn sight more than I trust the US

5-7 years iirc according to the article I read. After that failure rates start going up, not sure how long the curve from 0-100% is though.

Bottom line the UK (and the rest of the EU) need to start getting missile factories stood up. Not just for trident but for all the other arms we get off the US.

Evidence is already clear and has been “approved” (for lack of a better word). Orban has already had funding frozen and fines imposed for various breaches

It requires unanimity of the other members, Hungary was protected by PiS in Poland (who are also corrupt authoritarians) until they were voted out, there was then a short window of a couple of months where the EU squibbed their chance, then Slovakia replaced their chad Prez with Fico who is also a corrupt authoritarian and the opportunity was lost.

What they can do is get all the preparatory stuff done and wait to see if Slovakia replace Fico, or (very unlikely but not impossible) the challenger to Orban manages to win. If neither happens then giving Fico a bigger bribe than Putin does is the last resort.

The UK outsourced maintenance of the delivery mechanism (the missile body) to the US.

The warhead is built & maintained by the UK.

The missiles have a life span so eventually they will stop working without US help.

It is if looked at in isolation.

Consider the context though. The EU is under direct political attack from a fascist enemy through both propaganda and direct threats.

Causing thousands to be laid off in a time of global turmoil is NOT going to help prevent the likes of AfD and FN taking power. It would in fact garner them votes. Couple that with the US deliberately starting an economic war and this is sub optimal but necessary if the EU is to survive the fascist rise.